There's a WordPress Developer opening in Lalpur, Ranchi, and it's a full-time, on-site seat. Sites built and maintained here go live for real clients, so the work is less about tinkering and more about shipping something that has to keep working after you've moved on to the next ticket. It's a straightforward full-time role, no freelance or project-based arrangement involved.
Your Day-to-Day
- Build and maintain the code behind client sites, mostly custom theme work and functionality plugins rather than starting from a blank slate every time.
- Work alongside designers and project managers when a new feature comes in, since a request that sounds simple in a client email often needs a real back-and-forth to scope properly.
- Track down and close out issues QA turns up, everything from a broken form submission to a layout that falls apart in one particular browser.
A recent example: a client noticed their contact form had quietly stopped sending emails after an update pushed through automatically overnight. Finding that kind of thing and fixing it before the client notices it on their own is a normal part of the job here, not an exception. Most weeks bring a mix of small maintenance requests and one or two features that need actual planning, so the pace shifts depending on what clients are asking for that particular week. Some weeks lean almost entirely toward maintenance, others toward a bigger feature push, and there's no fixed formula for which one shows up when.
Skills You'll Need
- Solid, practical WordPress experience, comfortable moving between themes, plugins, and the admin dashboard without hand-holding.
- PHP for the actual logic behind custom functionality, not just editing what a theme ships with.
- MySQL, enough to write and troubleshoot the queries a WordPress site runs on underneath.
- HTML and CSS for markup and styling work that doesn't always route through a page builder.
- Plugin customization, since a lot of real client requests are "make this existing plugin do one more thing" rather than building from scratch.
Beyond the core list, familiarity with Elementor or WPBakery speeds things up considerably, and prior WooCommerce work is a genuine plus given how often e-commerce requests come through. Comfort with Git for version control matters, too, since multiple developers touch these codebases over time, and untracked changes cause real headaches down the line. None of these are hard requirements, but a candidate who's touched all three usually needs less ramp-up time than one who hasn't. Some working knowledge of Advanced Custom Fields also comes up often enough in client work that it's worth mentioning if you have it.
What We Expect Going In
This role calls for a bachelor's degree, most commonly in computer science or information technology, though a candidate with equivalent hands-on experience and a different degree background wouldn't be ruled out. Three years of hands-on WordPress development experience is expected, ideally in an agency or client-facing setting where you've had to juggle more than one site at once. That client-facing part matters as much as the raw years, since managing a client's expectations around timelines is a skill in its own right, separate from the coding itself.
What counts more than a certificate is time spent actually building with these tools on a live project. A developer who's shipped a handful of real client sites, even small ones, generally has a better feel for the job than someone who's only worked on personal projects. That gap tends to show up quickly in an interview once the conversation moves past the resume and into specifics.
Team and Growth
Reviews happen informally most weeks rather than on a fixed quarterly cycle, mainly because a developer's output here is visible quickly enough that waiting three months to discuss it doesn't make much sense. A developer who's put in three solid years on WordPress and shown they can own a client relationship, not just close tickets, tends to move toward more senior, less supervised work fairly naturally. There's no formal promotion ladder laid out on day one, and that's a fair thing to ask about directly in an interview rather than something worth guessing at from the outside. Someone earlier in their career who's still building that client-facing confidence would get paired with more oversight on new accounts until that trust is established.
Compensation and Benefits
- A monthly salary of ₹71,500.
- Health insurance.
- Paid time off.
- Provident fund contributions.
- Relocation assistance and accommodation support for anyone moving to Ranchi for this role, since it's on-site only.
The salary is competitive for a WordPress-focused role in Ranchi specifically, where the cost of living runs noticeably lower than the bigger IT hubs, which tends to make the take-home value stretch further than the raw number suggests.
Working in Lalpur
The office is in Lalpur, one of Ranchi's more established commercial pockets, and this is not a remote or hybrid position. Team size here is small enough that a developer's work is visible almost immediately, whether that's a feature going live or a bug getting closed out. This opening was posted through Naukri Mitra. Ranchi's tech scene is smaller than the big metro hubs, which for some developers is exactly the appeal: fewer layers between writing code and seeing it used. Lalpur itself is well connected within Ranchi, with enough cafes and shared workspaces nearby that a developer who prefers stepping out for a change of scenery on a lunch break has decent options within walking distance.
How to Apply
Send a resume along with links to two or three WordPress sites you've built or worked on, ideally with a short note on what your specific contribution was for each one. Candidates who move forward can expect a short practical task involving a real plugin customization scenario before a final conversation with the development lead. If the sites you'd want to share are under an NDA, a short written description of the work is a fine substitute, so don't let that hold you back from applying. There's no fixed deadline attached to this hire; the role stays open until it's filled.
